A fireball from an oil train carrying North Dakota crude that killed 47 people when it derailed last July in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. Creative Commons photo by Steve Poulin/Agence QMI and Flickr user Public Herald.

Snowplows tackle tumbleweeds in southeastern Colorado.

Tumbleweeds clog a road fenceline to fenceline all the way to the horizon.

This image from State Farm, the largest insurance company in Colorado and the U.S., shows homeowners in a high-risk fire zone near Possum Kingdom, Texas. State Farm is represented on the Wildfire Partners advisory board.

Lake Mead's white bathtub ring symbolizes drought in the West. But there's been an even greater, invisible draw down of groundwater from beneath the Colorado River Basin in the last nine years. (Photo by Kumar Appaiah, Wikimedia Commons)

Fox Searchlight Pictures poster for the new '12 Years a Slave' film, which has not been shown in Bozeman's multiplex theater, even though it's been in wide release around the country for nearly two months.

Shows how anti-coagulant rodenticide, commonly known as rat poison, can work its way up the food chain. Credit National Park Service. Click for larger image.

Mt. San Miguel continues to burn during 2007 San Diego wildfires. Photograph from Flickr user slworking2.

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1976 sort map

2008 sort map

Rig counts vs. natural gas prices

This map from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows the 2012 distribution of the Northern Rockies gray wolf packs.

November 30 storm image

December 3 storm image

Jon Marvel, founder of Western watersheds, looking off into the distance wearing a hat.

Mike Branch, climbing a sand dune in the middle of winter. What a silly person. By Stephanie P Ogburn

Rios to Rivers in Chile. Photo courtesy Katie Hyman.

The Freshwater Institute's salmon in a Washington, D.C-area grocery store this March. By Scott Tsukuda, the Conservation Fund.

Credit: Flickr user caniswolfie

Commercial fishermen and Bristol Bay Native tribes vehemently oppose Pebble Mine, but the state of Alaska has backed the Pebble Partnership in a lawsuit seeking to stop the EPA from stopping the mine. Photo courtesy Flickr user echoforsberg.

Sonoran Desert National Monument

Photo courtesy Flickr user Ava Lowery

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Natural gas drilling rigs on the Pinedale Anticline in Wyoming

A woman gets a flu shot. Courtesy Flickr user Lance McCord.

Glare from Nevada Solar One, a concentrating solar plant.

Proposition 37, Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food, was on the November 6, 2012 ballot in California but it was defeated.

The Navajo Generating Station at sunrise.

Salt Lake City has suffered smog problems since at least the 1970s. 1972 photo from the EPA

The new farm bill won't prevent states from imposing more humane standards on livestock producers. Photo courtesy of Compassion in World Farming.

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Fire on the East Fork of the Bitterroot River, Montana

Kids hiking in the Trinity Alps.

A Veterans Affairs hospital in Oregon led the nation in highest number of prescriptions of opiate painkillers per patients last year. Veterans around the country are being prescribed more painkillers now than ever before.

A relatively quiet day (Easter 2014) at one of the Animas River boat put-ins. During the average summer day, this area is filled with rafts, buses, trailers and boaters. Jonathan Thompson photo.

Gasoline stations abandoned during the fuel crisis in the winter of 1973-74 were sometimes used for other purposes. This station at Potlatch, Washington, was turned into a religious meeting hall. April 1974. Credit: David Falconer.

The remains of a storm at Venice Beach, California. Photograph by flickr user Sean Bonner.

A provision in the farm bill would encourage farmers not to plow up native prairie for crops. Photo courtesy Flickr user Jared Hansen.

Springtime in Magdalena, N.M., which ran out of water last summer. Courtesy Flickr user JClarson

Lander, Wyoming, borders the Wind River Reservation and stands to benefit economically from the recent settlement.